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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: ANSI C and POSIX
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 20:31:59 -0500
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
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- In article <01bb2dd1.53b4e740$c6c2b7c7@Zany.localhost>,
- Bradd W. Szonye <bradds@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >You can get 9899 for 30 bucks at a bookstore. Herbert Schildt wrote an
- >annotated version, much more readable than the standard alone. And $30 is
- >cheap for computer books.
-
- "More readable than the standard alone"? Bullshit. In the plain standard,
- all the text is on both pages. In the "annotated" one, the standard text
- is on one page, and the facing page contains lies, bullshit, and hypotheses,
- disguised as annotations.
-
- The annotated one used to be missing a page, although this may be fixed,
- has a moderately crucial "." missing from the specification of floating
- point numbers, does not have any updates from the technical corrigendum
- or normative addendum...
-
- And, of course, remember that the annotations are *hopelessly* wrong, on
- a consistent and regular basis. This is possibly one of the most useless,
- if not downright *dangerous*, things you can do; it's horrible.
-
- I personally think McGraw-Hill should lose their license to reproduce the
- standard; I've corresponded with them about errors in their books, and
- they've chosen to take the path of "No author who has sold this many books
- could possibly be wrong that often."
-
- If you doubt that the man is fundementally and basically unqualified to be
- writing a book on C, just remember that in the 2nd edition of
- _C: The Complete Reference_, we see "<>" used as an inequality operator.
- (Page 53.) In the third edition, it's fixed - but the other mistakes on
- the same page aren't. (There's at least 3; look 'em up if you have the book,
- and if you can't find them, worry.)
-
- >And I'm sure your suggestion has already been done.
-
- Nope. At least, if it has, I've never seen it.
-
- -s
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